Job 39:13
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Note Pinions are the outer parts of a bird’s wings, including the flight feathers.
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Note wings and…: or, the feathers of the stork and ostrich
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- peacocks
- 1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21
- wings and feathers unto the
- or, the feathers of the storkand.
- Job 30:29; Leviticus 11:19; Psalm 104:17; Jeremiah 8:7; Zechariah 5:9